A partnership for district & school leaders

Math professional learning that shows up in your scores.

We grow teachers as mathematicians first. That is the only sequence that has ever moved student math achievement - and we price ourselves against the result.

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A Thought Exercise, for example

Nobody is being tested. How you would get there is the interesting part - and most people reach for the arithmetic first, because that is what school taught all of us to do.

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0% → 67%

kindergarten pilot, on grade level, fall to spring

i-Ready Math Diagnostic

54% vs 4%

7th graders proficient, pilot against non-pilot

Phillips Middle · Edgecombe County, NC

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teachers rated the immersive five stars

The district's own anonymous survey

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How It Works

Four steps, in this order.

It starts withTeachers who know the mathematics

Which producesReal discussion in the room

Which producesStudents who can reason

Which is whatAssessments measure

Skip the first step and the other three do not happen. Every part of this partnership is built on that order.

Where To Go Next

The whole case, in four pages.

The Approach

Why the spending has not moved the scores

Districts have spent heavily on math PD for a decade while NAEP results fell. The mechanism that does move achievement is what a teacher understands mathematically.

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Results

What two pilot cohorts measured

Kindergarten classrooms went from 0% to 67% of students on grade level; 54% of 7th graders reached proficiency against 4%. Both measured by the districts, on i-Ready.

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The Program

An in-person start, then a year of work

Year One puts a cohort of twenty back in the position of learners. Year Two grows six to twelve of them into instructional leaders who stay on your payroll.

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Pricing

$40,000 for a cohort of twenty

Sized to sit inside the professional development and Title II money you already have. Half comes back if you decide the year was not worth it.

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The fastest way to judge this is to do the mathematics yourself.

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